How You Can Fix Your Community in One Day
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Claim: one-day actions scale. Presents concrete steps — run a workshop or study group, add a code of conduct, recruit local mentors, pair newcomers with coaches — and cites results: Rails Girls Summer of Code gets 162 applicants, raises $120,000 to fund 16 teams in 2015, sponsors 64 women over two years, yields 90% alumni working in tech and 8% founders. Describes building the Speakerinnen database (700+ women) and how mentorship and scholarships actually increase retention.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:18HOW TO FIX YOUR COMMUNITY IN ONE DAY
- 3:45A diverse team can capture a greater share of the consumer market.
- 4:09#win
- 5:15#lose
- 8:28hostile work environment isolation lack of carreer path lack of role models
- 12:32DIVERSITY IS AWESOME
- 13:03WHAT CAN WE DO?
- 16:21RECOGNIZE MENTOR BE A ROLE MODEL TAKE A FRIEND
- 18:06Rails Girls Summer of Code
- 24:18over 90 % of our alumni are now working in tech
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